total: poems

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"I want to keep more of my life; I want presence; I want to live; I want to be receptive in and to the much of life that is 'insignificant'-that's nothing or close to nothing- the habitual, the ordinary, the routine, the domestic." -Aisha Sasha John "I want to keep more of my life; I want presence; I want to live; I want to be receptive in and to the much of life that is 'insignificant'-that's nothing or close to nothing- the habitual, the ordinary, the routine, the domestic." -Aisha Sasha John A collection that takes dailiness and its objects-the body and the home and their maintenance; relationships as its subject. This, for many of us, for the poet, is most of life. In total, the quotidian's potential for enchantment is a function of a receptivity developed by the author as a choreographer, performer, and poet. The work also reflects the natural juxtaposition of scales of substance and subject (grief, snacks, pets, break-ups, travel, addiction, recovery, and more) that give any particular life its singularity. I have all time when covered in argan oil When I scrub my face at night I feel gold inside I mean art council I can't believe the government is going to make me crawl out of my intestines to explain the information god put there

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AISHA SASHA JOHN is the author of i have to live (2017), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; THOU (2014), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award; and The Shining Material (2011). She choreographs and performs in the feminist collective WIVES as well as solo performances (The Aisha of Oz, VOLUNTEER). Aisha's video work and text art have been exhibited in galleries (Doris McCarthy, Oakville Galleries) and installed at Union Station in Toronto (Art Metropole). She was born in Montreal.